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FC Augsburg is a Germany football (soccer) List of football clubs in Germany based in Augsburg, Bavaria. The team was founded as
Fußball-Klub Alemania Augsburg in 1907 and played as
BC Augsburg from 1921 to 1969.
History
In the face of impending financial collapse,
BC merged with the football side of
TSV Schwaben Augsburg in July 1969 to form
FC Augsburg, however
Schwaben was unhappy with the result and re-formed its own football team in 1970. For this reason,
FCA is generally not considered to carry on the traditions of
TSV Schwaben, only those of
BC Augsburg.
Prior to World War II FC Augsburg's best performance came as a second place finish in the Gauliga Bayern in 1940. After the war it played regularly in the top-flight Oberliga Süd (1945-63) with occasional laspes which dropped it to the second division.
Play in the 2. Bundesliga
Since the formation of the Fußball-Bundesliga in 1963, the Augsburg side has spent most of its time in tier III leagues. They managed two seasons in the 1960s in the second division, and enjoyed another eight seasons at that level in the mid-70s and early 80s. The club's most successful season was undoubtedly 1973-74 when, freshly promoted to Regionalliga Süd (1963-74), they won the league with a team led by Helmut Haller and missed out on an advance to the Bundesliga by only one point. A highlight of that season was the away game at its old rival
TSV 1860 München which attracted 90,000 spectators. However, FC Augsburg could not match this success in the following seasons and was back in the Oberliga Bayern in 1979-80. They advanced to the national amateur final that year where they dropped a 1:2 decision to
VfB Stuttgart.
In 1981 and 1983 FC Augsburg returned once more to the 2nd Bundesliga, just to be relegated straight away again. In 1983, a young
FCA team missed survival by just three goals, being on equal points with the 16th placed
Union Solingen. In 1994 they had another try at promotion in the last year of promotion play-offs to the 2nd Bundesliga. However, the Bavarian champion was not grouped with the other southern German clubs as in previous years and had to face stronger clubs in the northern group that included
Eintracht Braunschweig and
Fortuna Düsseldorf. Despite being overmatched and unable to advance, they still had good support in the region with crowds of 20,000 plus turning up at these games.
Financial crisis and return to the 2. Bundesliga
When a potential investor backed out, the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB or German Football Association) denied the debt-laden team a license, and as a result, the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons were spent in the Oberliga Bayern (IV) before a return to the Regionalliga Süd (III).
FCA came achingly close to advancing to 2.Bundesliga in 2005, but missed their opportunity after giving up two goals to
Jahn Regensburg in the last four minutes of their final game of the season. FC Augsburg dominated the Regionalliga Süd the next year, winning the league and clinching a berth in the 2nd Bundesliga for the 2006-07. This marked their first appearance in the 2nd Bundesliga in 23 years. They finished the campaign in seventh place on 52 points, only 8 points away from promotion to the top-flight. One again, the game at
TSV 1860 was the highlight, with a 3-0 victory for
Augsburg in front of 69,000 in the Allianz Arena. Ralf Loose replaced Rainer Hörgl as head coach in October 2007 when FC Augsburg found itself in the relegation zone. Loose's contract was terminated on 16 April 2008 after a string of bad results. He was replaced with Holger Fach two days later. FC Augsburg avoided relegation on goal average, being on equal points with relegated side Kickers Offenbach at the end of the season.
The long time home ground of the FCA, Rosenau Stadion, built from World War II rubble, may finally come to its well deserved rest in 2009 when a new stadion is slated to be completed. The new Impuls Arena is also scheduled to host games of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Youth and amateur sides
The historically indifferent performance of the senior side was offset by the success of FC Augsburg's youth team, which captured a national championship in the under-18's in 1993, being the last non-Bundesliga club to do so. They also took four Cup titles in the early 1990s, all under the guidance of coach Heiner Schuhmann. With Schuhmanns departure for Bayern Munich, the golden age of
FCA youth football ended and FC Augsburg could not quite achieve so highly again. With the formation of the
Under 19 Bundesliga (football) (2004) and
Under 17 Bundesliga (football) (2007), the clubs youth teams slippt to second division status and in 2008-09, the under-18's and under-16's youth teams play in the
Under 19 Bayernliga and
Under 17 Bayernliga, the second tier of youth football.
FC Augsburg's reserve team currently plays in the Landesliga Bayern-Süd (V), having been promoted to the league in 2004. FC Augsburg did not field a reserves team at all between 1989 and 1997, preferring instead to concentrate on its successful youth program.
The
FC Augsburg II finished fourth in their league in the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons and remains at this level for the 2008-09 season.
Honours
FC Augsburg
- League
- - Gauliga Bayern (I) runner-up: 1940
- - Regionalliga Süd (II) champions: 1974, 2006
- - 2nd Oberliga Süd (II) champions: 1961
- - Oberliga Bayern (III-IV) champions: 1973, 1980, 1982, 1994, 2002
- Cup
- - Schwaben Cup winners: 1969-1972, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005
- - Schwaben Cup runners-up: 1992
- Youth
- - German Under 19 championship (football): 1993
- - German Under 17 championship (football) runners-up: 1979
- - German Under 19 Cup winners: 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995
- - Bavarian Under 19 championship winners: 1978, 1990, 1993, 1997
- - Bavarian Under 19 championship runners-up: 1976, 1979, 1989, 2005, 2009
- - Bavarian Under 17 championship winners: 1979, 1981, 1995, 2003, 2006
- - Bavarian Under 17 championship runners-up: 1976-78, 1984, 1985, 1991, 2008
- - Bavarian Under 15 championship winners: 1996
- - Bavarian Under 15 championship runners-up: 1981, 1983, 1985, 1997
FC Augsburg II
- League
- - Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) champions: 2004
- - Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord (V) champions: 1976
- - Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd (VII) champions: 2003
- Cup
- - Schwaben Cup winners: 1977
- - Schwaben Cup runners-up: 1983, 2007
FC Augsburg seasons
FC Augsburg
- 4/1990 - 6/1990 Gernot Fuchs
- 7/1990 - 6/1995 Armin Veh
- 7/1995 - 9/1996 Karsten Wettberg
- 9/1996 - 12/1996 Helmut Riedel
- 1/1997 - 4/1998 Hubert Müller
- 4/1998 - 6/1998 Helmut Riedel (2nd time)
- 7/1998 - 6/1999 Gerd Schwickert
- 7/1999 - 11/1999 Alfons Higl
- 11/1999- 12/1999 Heiner Schuhmann (4th time)
- 1/2000 - 6/2000 Hans-Jürgen Boysen
- 7/2000 - 6/2002 Gino Lettieri
- 7/2002 - 9/2003 Ernst Middendorp
- 10/2003- 9/2004 Armin Veh (2nd time)
- 9/2004 - 9/2007 Rainer Hörgl
- 9/2007 - 4/2008 Ralf Loose
- 4/2008 - 4/2009 Holger Fach
- 4/2009 - 6/2009 Zdenko Miletic
- 7/2009 - present Jos Luhukay
Source: Famous players
- Helmut Haller, who scored against England in the 1966 FIFA World Cup final, made 19 appearances for the West German national team while playing for Augsburg from 1957 to 1962.
- Bernd Schuster
- Karl-Heinz Riedle
For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer 2009 and List of German football transfers winter 2008-09.
Augsburg Derby
The Augsburg derby was last played at the league level on 25 November 2000 when both
Schwaben and
FCA were in the Bayernliga with
Schwaben winning 2-1. Considering the opposite directions the two clubs have since taken, it is hard to imagine
FCA avenging this defeat in the near future. Matches between the two sides are generally regarded as a continuation of the old
BCA versus
Schwaben rivallry.
The league derbys since 1945:
{ via the Autobahn. It began in earnest in 1973-74 when both clubs played for
Bundesliga promotion in the
Regionalliga Süd and carried on in the
2nd Bundesliga Süd. It heated up again in the
Bayernliga from 1983 to 1993 when both tried unsuccessfully for years to return to professional football. After this, their ways parted for 13 years, till
FCA regained its
2nd Bundesliga status in 2006. Since then, their games against each other have become huge crowd magnets for the region, well above 2nd Division standards. The Rosenaustadion with its current capacity of 28.000 has both times been sold out and the Allianz Arena in Munich with a capacity of 69.000 comes close.
The games since 2005:
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Related pages
1.FC Kaiserslautern, 1.FC Nürnberg, Alemannia Aachen, FC Augsburg, FSV Mainz 05, Greuther Fürth, Hansa Rostock, LR Ahlen, MSV Duisburg, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, SC Freiburg, St. Pauli, SV Wehen, TSV 1860 München, TuS Koblenz, VfL Osnabrück